Lily is totally aware of her sexual power, and she has spent many evenings enveloped by a lover’s arms before they eventually part. Her parents and teachers, exasperated, think of her as a lost cause and a waste of potential. Her sexual endeavors led Lily to an unwanted pregnancy. She is assigned a job at a depressing bookbinding machine shop with other lost teens. Without supervision, they permeate the shop’s atmosphere with hormonal, adolescent lust. Lily capitalizes on this as she guides their sexual energies through a web of steamy handwritten, anonymous notes. Merely the commentator, Lily cannot participate, as her pregnant body contorts her into pain and long fits of sleep. She works alongside Matthew, Jamie, Orlando, Tish, Geri, and others, all of whom never complain about Lily’s constant sleeping on the job, but instead pick up her slack. Only her coworker, Matthew, the caricaturist, knows of her hidden pregnancy, and he is deeply infatuated with her. He draws skillful illustrations of his coworkers — of the creeping older engineer who inappropriately photographs Lily — and of Lily herself. She briefly imagines a future with him, but her loneliness is insurmountable and neither she nor Matthew will ever see her baby grow.